Monday, August 26, 2013

OPERATION FREE SPEECH

Our goal is to educate the public and radio community about KBOO's toxic situation. If there's a solution, great. If there isn't, then at least these slime balls can't continue their act in the progressive community.

We will continue to give news updates, but the option is there for readers to participate more actively in planning, writing or even organizing actions. Posting is possible as guests or registered, but a couple boards can only be accessed with registration. Also to start threads requires registration(need a check back on that?).

This blog has many assets, but it has the same limitations as all the "Inner Party" propaganda organs: it's a one way street. To really get the word out people need a platform to explore their own ideas. This is certainly not the only way to do it, but it's one way. Considering until recently dissenters from the "Inner Party" had no ways, it puts people a little ahead of the game.

We wish to inform the public of a
cancer growing in the Portland metro area in the community radio scene,
nurtured by the organization known as KBOO radio. For years KBOO has
been a community resource allowing ordinary people to learn how radio
works and let their voice be heard. We are sad to inform the public
this non profit institution, created to serve the public, has been
hijacked by a small oligarchy, exploiting the brand of KBOO community
radio for their personal agenda.

This is unacceptable.

When
objections were voiced this year about this small controlling party,
their response was a cocktail of destructive, abusive and illegal
behaviors, culminating in an attempt to obtain information from
dissenting members using an illegal phishing scheme. This level of
vindictive pathology is more akin to the defensive maneuvers of a
destructive cult than a community radio station that espouses the values
of social justice and free speech. Therefore we have decided to expose
this cancer so these vampires cannot continue to make their living at
the public's expense.

As the station heads towards
bankruptcy, a renewed effort to hide facts to keep the money flowing has
motivated the controlling party to convince people talking about
problems in a progressively irrelevant cocoon is the same as solving
those problems. By giving people the illusion of doing something, it
has lulled the alternative community into believing their voice is being
heard when in fact their voices are being redirected into an echo
chamber with no chance of effecting change in the real world in a
meaningful way.

Soliciting financial donations under these
circumstances.is deceptive and fraudulent. We hope in exposing the rot
that has infected this public community resource, the public may
reclaim control of the KBOO community station.

We may not
succeed. KBOO's time in community radio may be over and, if this is
true, we will let the sun set gracefully on this chapter of alternative
radio history.

But even so the task remains to drive
out the micro cult that has hijacked KBOO using radical rhetoric to mask
a private agenda of exploitation, control and abuse. The controlling
Party and their supporters must be prevented from exploiting other
progressive organizations. If this is not done, more people will be
sucked into the orbit of these personalities and the toxic pseudo
alternative culture used to recruit more victims of their propaganda.

ORS 135.733 "Defamation: An accusatory instrument for criminal defamation need not set forth any extrinsic facts for the purpose of showing the application to the party defamed of the defamatory matter on which the accusatory instrument is founded; but it is sufficient to state generally that the same was published concerning the party; and the fact that it was so published must be established on the trial. [Formerly 132.670]" ...You accuse Tom Hood of a crime. Yet no charges are filed.

Maybe since you care so much, you can tell Tommy to answer the email he was sent Aug 10 ish asking him to explain himself. He ignored it. The only reason someone would ignore it is they weren't sure what we knew, and they were playing it safe. He's acting GUILTY AS SIN.

So yeah, if you could get him to follow up on that explanation, that would be awesome.

Otherwise, we'll expect delivery of his LOLsuit and treat it with the same seriousness as Lisa "Hacker" Loving's.

The "Yellow Blog" has been effective IMHO because of the humor and satyric format. Just the same as good radio, it has to entertain before you get the buy in from the listener to be able to inform.

I'd hate for SKFSK to go away and be totally replaced by the new OFS blog.

I appreciate the effort though, but what kept the anti KKK movement going was the hearty laugh reading the spin here. While at times it was frustrating emailing in tips and wondering if and when it would be blogged on, it was usually worth the wait.

The "Yellow Blog" has been effective IMHO because of the humor and satyric format. Just the same as good radio, it has to entertain before you get the buy in from the listener to be able to inform.

There are mixed opinions. If you already know what's going on, you're right...it's a breath of fresh air. If you don't, its confusing. Think of an in-joke you and your friends find funny as hell...but everyone else goes "huh?". It's hard to rally new people if they don't get the joke.

This was effective because the Inner Party got the joke too. They recognized they were being mocked and altered their behavior to the point of not acting out in public so as to be mocked less. This wasn't just for the Lulz. Their reactions gave us information about who they were, their agenda and values. Now we know what we're dealing with, just pointing and laughing borders on sophomoric.

I appreciate the effort though, but what kept the anti KKK movement going was the hearty laugh reading the spin here.

There's no reason to expect the lulz will vanish. True it won't be in the parody style of pretending to be a rah rah Party Member, but there's plenty of room for more subtle satire and sarcasm. And nothing's stopping anyone from commenting as a parody of the Inner Party.

We feel it would be redundant to continue this as a news feed and commentary when the forum format allows more flexibility and reader participation at the same time. It also takes the pressure off us to entertain you lazy lurkers. :P

DEFECTING FROM THE INNER PARTY?

Then start packing for the Happy Valley Reeducation Center, where we guarantee ALL Party Members WILL be HAPPY.

But seriously folks...

For readers who don't know the background, this blog was started by a group of KBOO radio fans.

Recent events at the station have been blown out of proportion by a small group of KBOO members who feel threatened by actions of management trying to address the very real issue of financial trouble and keep the station viable.

These people instead believe they are victims of a conspiracy involving Station Navigator Lynn Fitch and have promoted their cause with the worst kind of missionary zeal, in some cases using unethical tactics like impersonation. They call themselves "Keep KBOO KBOO" and appear to be led by Theresa Mitchell, who has a penchant for using revolutionary imagery and jargon. Allies include KBOO Board members abusing their influence. This begged for satire, thus this blog was born.

We are documenting the ongoing tussle and any new fibs and misinformation the "Keep KBOO KBOO" crowd creates. They also have a website called savekboo.org . We recommend anyone leaving comments there to archive them in text or images, as a certain amount of rewriting history is known to happen there.

BACK TO THE BARRICADES COMRADES!!!!

Praise for "Save KBOO from Save KBOO"

"is the funniest thing I've read in a long time." - delighted at Portland Indymedia June 7, 2013

"Anyway, the obsessives here are directly and clearly defined by how many 'NYAH NYAH NYAH-NYAH-NYAH-NYAH (e.g. "save kboo from asave kboo")'-titled smear-blog Obsessive Paranoiac websites they can manage to create in a week. " -huh? at Portland Indymedia June 7, 2013